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Topics :: ResearchTue, 31 Mar 2015 13:29:28 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138223/http://chronicle.com/article/CollegeClass/138223/
Two researchers discuss their study of inequality in higher education, which involved the women on one freshman floor of a public-college flagship.]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:56:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137639/http://chronicle.com/article/Georgia-State-U-Scholar-Leads/137639/
The Oral History Association's first-ever executive director, Clifford M. Kuhn, must lead it through the rocky terrain of legal challenges and digital advances.]]>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:01:00 ESThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/136945/http://chronicle.com/article/ConnMass-Governors/136945/
The two governors have very different ideas on what to do with the money and how to raise it.]]>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 ESThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/135566/http://chronicle.com/article/Boston-U-Receives-Coveted/135566/
The association added a member for the first time since 2009. Two universities left the group last year.]]>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134870/http://chronicle.com/article/Its-Almost-as-if-Max-Eastman/134870/
While working as an intern at Columbia's rare-books library, Jean-Christophe Cloutier found the unpublished manuscript of a famous Harlem Renaissance writer.]]>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134876/http://chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Pretender/134876/
A Japanese professor churned out nearly 200 fraudulent papers over two decades. How was he able to avoid detection for so long?]]>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134892/http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Pushing-Faculty/134892/
The cost savings may be elusive, some analysts say.]]>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134530/http://chronicle.com/article/Inside-the-Cuban-Missile/134530/
Fifty years later, scholars try to get inside the heads of three leaders a thread away from Armageddon.]]>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134524/http://chronicle.com/article/The-Marketplace-in-Your-Brain/134524/
Scientists have identified brain regions that decide what’s valuable. Why are most economists ignoring them?]]>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134456/http://chronicle.com/article/Anthropologys-Great-Advocate/134456/
After 16 years of leading the American Anthropological Association, William E. Davis will step down to write a book about managing scholarly societies.]]>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:00:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134438/http://chronicle.com/article/Reviving-British-Columbias/134438/
The Canadian government deemed them vanished in 1961. Now an archaeologist, working with their descendants, studies how the Indians might have used their ancient land.]]>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:00:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134240/http://chronicle.com/article/Moral-Robots-the-Future-of/134240/
Some resist the hypothesis that using machines with an "artificial conscience" would result in fewer civilian deaths.]]>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/134016/http://chronicle.com/article/What-They-Built-at-Brain-Camp/134016/
Twenty years of study and schmoozing started a new discipline: cognitive neuroscience.]]>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/133325/http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Researchers-Escape/133325/
A paper touting Paxil listed 22 researchers as authors, but it was actually written by the company. Glaxo has admitted guilt, so why haven't the academics been rebuked?]]>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/133043/http://chronicle.com/article/Zombies-on-the-Brain/133043/
Their tongue-in-cheek talks on the undead have made them minor celebrities. But public outreach, even when it promotes science, can hurt academics' careers.]]>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132951/http://chronicle.com/article/Vengeful-Tiger-Glowing-Rabbit/132951/
People treat animals in bizarre and beastly ways.]]>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132819/http://chronicle.com/article/The-Strange-Neuroscience-of/132819/
Kenneth Hayworth wants to plastinate his brain and have it uploaded to a computer to achieve an immortal consciousness. Is he brilliant? Is he crazy? Is he both?]]>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132813/http://chronicle.com/article/Dreaming-of-a-World-Without/132813/
Confronted by social upheaval, conservative scholars tend to blame other scholars. That's a dangerous game.]]>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132755/http://chronicle.com/article/Writing-for-History-Buffs/132755/
A new online magazine seeks to promote historical scholarship to a general audience and to bridge the gap between academic and public historians.]]>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:00:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132823/http://chronicle.com/article/House-Lands-Neatly-Atop/132823/
The 70,000-pound artwork is a three-quarters-size house hanging over the edge of the building's roof, and quite safe to visit.]]>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:00:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132743/http://chronicle.com/article/From-Bench-to-Bunker/132743/
Basic discoveries in the biological sciences can lead to unexpected places, including the battlefield.]]>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132705/http://chronicle.com/article/When-One-Biographer-Borrows/132705/
A professor publishes an account of Nietzsche's life and work. Another professor notices that a previous author also spake in similar terms.]]>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132709/http://chronicle.com/article/More-Similarities-Between-2/132709/
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132747/http://chronicle.com/article/Post-PhD-an-Intellectual/132747/
A woman's affair with perfume began as a slow, secret flirtation that turned into an obsession.]]>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132621/http://chronicle.com/article/How-Do-I-Look-in-This-iPod-/132621/
A boomer prof attempts dignity with earbuds.]]>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDThttp://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132623/http://chronicle.com/article/The-Other-America-at-50/132623/
No book today is likely to shape domestic policy the way Michael Harrington’s did.]]>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDT